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Paul Tudor Jones II, a prominent University of Virginia alumnus and billionaire hedge-fund manager, upset alumni and faculty members with comments he made at a campus event last month while discussing the disproportionate number of men who are financial traders, according to The Washington Post.

Mr. Jones was part of a panel of four investors convened to share their views on business and philanthropy. Several audience members submitted questions about the absence of women on the panel. During th…

Helen E. Dragas, rector of the University of Virginia’s governing board, responded on Tuesday to faculty leaders who had criticized her reported conduct after a newspaper article suggested lingering friction between her and the university’s president, Teresa A. Sullivan. The apparent tension surfaced last week after The Washington Post published the text of an e-mail message in which Ms. Sullivan protested a list of 65 performance goals, 22 of them new, that Ms. Dragas sent the president in Febr…

Ever since Virginia’s governor, Robert F. McDonnell, reappointed Helen E. Dragas to another four-year term as rector of the University of Virginia’s governing board last summer, her opponents have been gearing up in hopes of blocking that move in the state legislature. Lawmakers have until February 8 to confirm her reappointment.

Opponents are upset that Ms. Dragas orchestrated a failed and very public campaign to oust the university’s president. Months later, the sting hasn’t worn off: They…

The Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools announced on Tuesday that it had placed the University of Virginia on warning status for one year over the failed ouster of its president, Teresa A. Sullivan, an incident that threw the Charlottesville campus into turmoil this past summer. The Daily Progressreports that the commission’s decision was announced at its annual meeting, in Dallas. Previously, the commission and the university had traded letters about th…

There are still three months left in the year, but The Washington Post has already published a roundup of the 10 ideas in 2012 that led to the most “anger, embarrassment, and humiliation.” Included: Mitt Romney’s 47-percent remark, Apple’s maps fiasco, the NFL’s referee lockout, and the ouster of Teresa A. Sullivan as the University of Virginia’s president, which ranks fifth. The Post writes:

Machiavelli might have taught a few tricks to Helen Dragas, the University of Virginia rector who quietl…

A group of University of Virginia alumni said on Thursday that it would push state legislators to reject the reappointment of the rector, Helen E. Dragas, to the university’s Board of Visitors, The Daily Progressreported. Gov. Bob McDonnell reappointed Ms. Dragas to another four-year term on the board in June, after she played a central role in the controversial ouster and reinstatement of Teresa A. Sullivan, the university’s president. But the group, which calls itself UVa Alumni for Respons…

Months after the ouster and reinstatement of Teresa A. Sullivan, details continue to emerge about how and why the University of Virginia’s popular president was briefly pushed aside. Some new tidbits:

UVa Sticks With Self-Analysis — Students, faculty, and alumni will be picking the bones of the scandal for some time, and they’ll have panel discussions, academic courses, and even neckwear to help them do it. Jack Stripling takes the measure.The Chronicle

A Virginia judge on Thursday sentenced George Huguely V, a former University of Virginia student who in February was convicted of second-degree murder in connection with the 2010 death of his onetime girlfriend and fellow student, to 23 years in prison, The Washington Postreports. The case, which captured national attention, highlighted alcohol abuse on college campuses and sparked debate about how college officials might intervene. Mr. Huguely’s lawyers had urged the judge to lower their cli…

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